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Ionesco's The Rhinoceros, Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Politics and Laughter

part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography (as the New York Times described it), The Book of Laughter and Forge...

Journey of Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

father, raised in Hong Kong and working as a journalist in London, Mr. Mo knows the conflicts from experience" (Anonymous Confucia...

Political and Personal Beliefs Reflected in Tillie Olsen's Writing

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

Big Trouble by Dave Barry

that group of people "who, merely by existing, tended to violate laws that solid citizens never even thought about, like how long...

Analysis of Excerpt from Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

be that" (Bloom 17). The Bluest Eye fulfills this need, as it describes life from Pecola perspective, which includes how Pecola, a...

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and the Conflict in Bougainville PNG

white they thought they were looking at ghosts or maybe some people who had just fallen into bad luck. Dogs sat on their tails an...

Catch-22

the desire for power possessed by the officers in a way that is very defining. With an understanding of the importance of this c...

House of Mirth

"Make connections between a movie and...the culture" (Corrigan 7). In this novel, and film, costumes, or clothing, was a very impo...

Tom Jones by Fielding

out of necessity for many and Allworthy and Bridget seem content to go without marriage, although Bridget was once married. They r...

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

The Jungle

Introduction Upton Sinclairs novel The Jungle was a novel he wrote in the hopes of making people aware of the evil nature of capi...

Comparing Apuleius' Golden Ass to Raiders of the Lost Ark

also his lover, that the antidote is to eat some roses. However, when he goes out into the garden to do so, he is beaten by the ga...

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Kesey's Use of Gender and Race

Chief Bromdens mother, whom he remembers as continuously emotionally abusing his father, "emasculating" him (Kesey 1963). This had...

Narration in The Moslem Wife and Passing

Here, for instance, are a few lines from the opening scene, in which a pivotal event in Nettas life is taking place: shes watching...

Power as a Theme in Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmiths novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" is the story of Tom Ripley, a young man whose looks can be very deceiving. Ri...

The Creature as Frankenstein’s Victim

in horror as the Creature comes to life: "His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his che...

Marriage and Independence in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

novel The Awakening provides insight into the marriages of Edna Pontellier and her friend Adele Ratignolle. Examination of these m...

Comparing Themes in Medea and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

lament: "Of everything that is alive and has a mind, we women are the most wretched creatures. First of all, we have to buy a hus...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

denigrating to himself as he comforts John R. Isidore, a "special," that is, someone affected by the omnipresent radioactive dust,...

Huckleberry Finn: Prejudiced or Non-Prejudiced Text?

continues to rage well into the twenty-first century about whether The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn represents racism and should...

Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights, Role of Education

This essay is on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The writer looks at the role of educ...

Ddifferent Issues about Memory

related to learning. 1.1 Human Memory The human mind has often been compared to a computer. In fact, the advent of the computer...

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf and Community

chapters, Woolf presents scenes of varying lengths, which are separated by a blank space, with each scene offering a fragmentary v...

System Dynamics in Gilbert Grape

as portrayed in the novel Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, definitely has more than one patient who could benefit from counseling inter...

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

the way in which females, both girls and women, use their bodies as a means of protesting both the restrictions of patriarchy and ...

Communism and Darkness at Noon by Koestler

emblematic of the party as it was once again, ironically a life that was dedicated to the cause that tormented him. In some way, t...

Character of Old Major in Animal Farm by George Orwell

farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...

William Faulkner's Narrative Perspectives in As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury

own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...

The River Why by Duncan

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

Pessimism and Optimism in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

generation." This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. One aspect of this story that seems t...